KALAMAZOO, MI — A question on whether to fund a central public safety communication system and 911 service system through 2029 will appear on all ballots in Kalamazoo County in this year’s Aug. 4 primary election.
The Kalamazoo County 911 Millage Proposal asks voters to approve a tax not to exceed 0.65 mills ($0.65 on each $1,000 of taxable value) annually for a period of 10 years from 2020-2029…
Efforts to improve accessibility and coverage of Erie County’s Next Generation Public Safety Radio System continues, the Erie County Department of Public Safety announced Friday.
The department, along with first responders in the region, have identified areas in the County that lack adequate coverage.
Federal Communications Commission (FCC) licensing continues to be a factor in the radio system’s delay. Canadian approval is required to avoid potential interference across Lake Erie. Any subsequent changes would need to go back to Canada for approval…
Amid calls for police budget cuts, Oakland police plan to hire more dispatchers, improve their dispatch center’s technology and seek more funding for the center, all to improve public safety.
The planned changes follow a grand jury’s findings that police dispatchers are overworked and the center is short-staffed and underfunded. Police will seek more resources for the center from the City Council in the next biennial budget, and the department is working now to improve the center’s technology, said police spokesman Paul Chambers…
While continuing research for my book on FirstNet, I happened across an Advocate published on July 26, 2010 entitled, “Mr. Seybold Goes to Washington.” I believe this column is a good recap of the activities the Public Safety Alliance (PSA), APCO, and others were engaged in and the politics they were up against. With the D-Block, another 10 MHZ of spectrum would be added to the 10 MHz then licensed to the Public Safety Spectrum Trust (PSST), bringing the total public-safety broadband spectrum to 20 MHz, which was what we believed we needed to ensure public safety would have sufficient broadband spectrum to operate nationwide. At the time, we thought our activity toward the end of July, 2010 boded well for winning the D-Block spectrum and establishment of a Nationwide Public-Safety Broadband Network (NPSBN)…
The NG9-1-1 Interoperability Oversight Commission (NIOC), the independent oversight body for standards-driven interoperability programs for NG9-1-1, is proud to announce approval and signature of a Master Services Agreement (MSA) with DigiCert for the US PSAP Credentialing Agency (PCA) on July 17, 2020 (In Canada, the CRTC mandated that NG9-1-1 network providers are to provide PCAs)…
Flathead County voters will have another chance this fall to decide whether or not to support a ballot measure that will tax property owners to support capital improvements for the Flathead Emergency Communications Center.
The county commissioners on Tuesday unanimously approved a resolution calling for the creation of a special district for the funding of the 911 consolidated dispatch center. The proposal will be placed on the Nov. 3 general election ballot… READ MORE
